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While everyone argues about whether AI is in a bubble, RTX Corporation is quietly stacking the kind of numbers that make value investors salivate. The defense and aerospace giant just reported 2025 revenue of $88.6 billion — up from $80.7 billion the year before — with an order backlog that swelled to $268 billion. In RTX's own words, they're seeing "unprecedented demand." Adjusted earnings per share came in at $6.29, beating the high end of their own guidance, and the ...
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When the FDA cracked down on your core product and Novo Nordisk slapped you with a lawsuit, most companies would hunker down. Hims & Hers chose to go shopping instead. The telehealth company announced Thursday it's acquiring Australian digital health platform Eucalyptus for up to $1.15 billion — the biggest deal in the company's history and a clear signal that CEO Andrew Dudum is betting the company's future on international expansion. The deal structure tells you a lot about how HIMS ...
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Walmart just dropped its fiscal Q4 earnings and crushed it — 74 cents adjusted EPS versus 73 cents expected, revenue of $190.66 billion versus $190.43 billion expected. But those were the boring numbers. The real story was buried in the earnings call, where new CEO John Furner casually revealed that Walmart's AI shopping assistant, Sparky, is driving average order sizes roughly 35% higher than non-users. Half of Walmart's app users have already tried it. Read that again: a chatbot is generating ...
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You know that friend who shows up late to dinner but somehow still charms everyone at the table? That's basically what DoorDash did with their Q4 earnings this week. Here's the setup: DASH missed both their revenue target ($3.96B vs $3.99B expected) and earnings per share ($0.48 vs $0.59 expected). In normal world logic, missing your targets = bad news. But this is Wall Street, where sometimes 2+2 equals "actually, let's talk about the bigger picture." The stock initially did what you'd ...
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So Morgan Stanley just did that thing where they move their little target numbers around, and this time it actually matters. They bumped their S&P 500 target from 7,200 to 7,800 for the end of 2026. That's an 18% jump from where we're sitting now – not exactly pocket change. Here's the thing: Michael Wilson, their chief U.S. equity strategist (fancy title for "guy who makes educated guesses about where stocks go"), thinks we're in a brand new bull market. Not ...
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Remember 2007? Yeah, that year when everyone thought housing prices only went up and Bear Stearns was still a thing. Well, Mohamed El-Erian—the guy who used to run PIMCO and has a habit of being annoyingly right about financial disasters—thinks he's seeing some familiar warning signs. This time, it's all about private credit. Here's what happened: Blue Owl Capital, one of the big players in private credit, just permanently froze withdrawals on one of their funds that regular people could invest ...
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Remember when Bitcoin was supposed to be "digital gold"? Yeah, well, that aged about as well as saying NFTs were the future of art. Turns out, Bitcoin has been having a bit of an identity crisis lately – and spoiler alert: it's acting more like your favorite volatile tech stock than the steady, reliable hedge everyone thought it would be. Here's the tea: Bitcoin has crashed over 50% from its October peak of $126,000 down to around $68,000 today. If that ...
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Here's a fun fact that'll make you rethink your investment strategy: Every single day, 11,000 Americans blow out 65 candles on their birthday cake. That's roughly 4 million new Medicare cards getting activated this year alone. Now, before you start feeling old yourself, let me tell you why this demographic shift is basically a money printer for smart investors. Welcome to the "Silver Tsunami" – and no, that's not just a fancy name for when your dad discovers TikTok. The Math That ...
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